The Boston-based Fenway Health, one of the country’s leading care and research centers for LGBTQIA+ people, has announced the appointment of Stacie Burgess as their new vice president of communications.
The first African American to join Fenway Health’s leadership team, Burgess comes to Fenway Health with 20 years experience in strategic communications and marketing, most recently at American University, where she was the Director of Public Affairs.
“Following a national search, Stacie emerged as the ideal candidate to join our team,” said Carl Sciortino, Fenway’s executive vice president of external relations. “She is a proven communications leader with experience designing and implementing national campaigns on civil rights and health care issues.”
“Stacie’s expertise in strategic communications, marketing and brand management, public affairs and policy, and media relations will be core to Fenway Health’s efforts to ensure that its learnings in intersectional LGBTQIA+ care and research is shared with patients, clients, stakeholders, and policymakers,” Sciortino said.
“I admire the extraordinary work of Fenway Health and am honored to join CEO Ellen LaPointe and her dedicated team in this vital stewardship role,” said Burgess.
“This opportunity allows me to leverage my communications and marketing experience in advancing the organization’s outstanding 50-year legacy of enhancing the well-being of the LGBTQIA+ community and all people through access to the highest quality health care, education, research, and advocacy,” she said.
Read the complete announcement from Fenway Health here.
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